John Ruskin Quotes
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
Quotes to Explore
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.
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I want to be up front racing.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
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I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
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The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
